The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-12

still further into the dense crowd, and began
hammering the horses with their batons,
causing the horses to plunge and kick. A
man was struck with baton, and he struck
back with his stick. Somebody threw a
stone, and in second the police formed and
charged. There was a moment Of panic In
the crowd, when 1t swung back. but only a
moment. Like flash those nearest the p0-
lice rallied. and infuriated at the attack fell
upon them with their blaekth0rns. There
were few seconds of brisk fighting, when
the police turned and fled in the widest con-
fusion, rolling over each other In their efforts
to escape. Several of their helmets tumbled
off, which the people seized and tore to
shreds or kicked before them like footballs.
They disappeared around the corner In a
shower of stones.
"Soon afterwards we heard volley of
musketry from the street, up which the po-
lice had fed, and In which their barracks
were situated. Then another and another.
"DillOn rushed into the barracks. There
he found the commander Of the police raging
like maniac and calling on his men to come
out and fire volleys up and down the street,
an order which Dillon. holding the officer in
the hall by main force, prevented him from
Il met Dillon coming up the square bare
headed. returning from the barracks. At his
suggestion Mr.. Lab0uchere, Mr.. Brunner
and went to the police barracks to inter-
view the magistrate. We found the resident
-
ment. The sleeve of his coat was smeared with
blood, and he held in his hand a stout
stick which he shook while he spoke. The
corpse OF one Of the murdered men had been
dragged of the roadway and lay right across
the threshold of the barracks door In a pool
of blood. This interview ended in the mag
istrate saying curtly that he had sent for the
military.
"Redcoats were soon afterward seen com
ing across the square, at the lower end Of
fbQV. N
hour or so, by great exertion on the part OF
all of us. the town was fairly clear OF blood.
las / returned to the square / found q
young fellow dipping his hand into the blood
of the man who was first shot. He said, 1
am going to keep this forever as a pledge OF
mortal hate against English rule
This briefly Is the story Of the day."
Mr. Dillon, in a statement made TO Mr..
Gill. showed that he repeatedly besought the
magistrate and officers to avoid the spilling
Of blood, but his opportunities were disre-
garded, the commander Of the police being
In frenzy Of excitement.
Foreign Notes.
A French smack reports the loss Of a ves-
sci, and 80 hands, in the English channel
/ Cholera returns for the "a hours ending
yesterday show in Malta seven new cases
and two deaths; Catania, ~ cases and eight
deaths; Palermo, IL cases and seven deaths !;
Messina, As cases and IA deaths Fresh cases
are reported at Rome and other places.
The mobilization experiment in France has
necessitated the raising Of the Seventeenth
Army Corps from 10000 to $500. General
Ferron has conferred upon General Clement
the decoration Of commander of the Legion
of Honor.
William O'Brien has telegraphed the
mayor of Limerick asking him to postpone
the proposed banquet to himself and John
Dillon on Tuesday, because IL would be out
Of keeping with the League convention
which they will attend on that day for the
purpose Of raising fund, for the relief of
evicted tenants
News from Stanley, dated July 18th, places
him at that time ten days march in the inte-
rior, still moving up the Aruwimi.